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Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł Prince Stanisław Albrecht "Stash" Radziwiłł (21 July 1914 – 27 July 1976) was a Polish prince, later a British citizen, as well as a socialite and a businessman. He served as director of the Olympic Airways. Career Radziwiłł was a ...

.'' Stanisław "the Pious" Radziwiłł () (12 May 1559 – 19 March 1599) was a sixth generation Radziwill family noble (

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) of the

Grand Duchy of Lithuania The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 Partitions of Poland, ...

in the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, also referred to as Poland–Lithuania or the First Polish Republic (), was a federation, federative real union between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ...

.
Odrowaz-Sypniewska He was a

Elder of Samogitia The Duchy of Samogitia (, , ) was an administrative unit of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1422 (and from 1569, a member country of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). Between 1422 and 1441 it was known as the Eldership of Samogitia. Si ...

(1595 until his death in 1599), a first

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Olyka Olyka (, ; ; ) is a city in Lutsk Raion, Volyn Oblast, western Ukraine. It is located east of Lutsk on the Putylivka Rriver. Its population is History The village of Olyka was founded in the early Middle Ages as one of the villages belonging ...

, and the Great Lithuanian Marshal (from 1592 until his death). He was the son of

Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł Mikołaj is the Polish cognate of given name Nicholas, used both as a given name and a surname. It may refer to people: In Polish (or Polish-Lithuanian) nobility: * Mikołaj Kamieniecki, Polish nobleman and the first Grand Hetman of the Crown * ...

and

Elżbieta Szydłowiecka Elżbieta Szydłowiecka () (b. 1533, d. 1562) was a Polish–Lithuanian Calvinist noblewoman heiress. She was the youngest daughter of Court and Great Chancellor Krzysztof Szydłowiecki and Zofia Tagrowicka h. Tarnawa. She was born in 1533. Sh ...

. Raised as a

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, he converted to

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and was known as a very pious person, which gained him the nickname ''Pobożny'' (Pious). He was also known for his scholarly interests - he collected books and could read in many languages. He avoided politics but fought in the wars with

Muscovy Muscovy or Moscovia () is an alternative name for the Principality of Moscow (1263–1547) and the Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721). It may also refer to: *Muscovy Company, an English trading company chartered in 1555 *Muscovy duck (''Cairina mosch ...

under the Polish king

Stefan Batory Stefan may refer to: * Stefan (given name) * Stefan (surname) * Ștefan, a Romanian given name and a surname * Štefan, a Slavic given name and surname * Stefan (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer * Stefan Heym, pseudonym of German writ ...

. He built most of the

Olyka Castle The Olyka Castle (; ) is a fortified palace in Olyka, Ukraine. Constructed in 1564, it became the principal seat of the Radziwiłł family in Volhynia, once part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and now Ukraine. The Radziwiłł ...

. Stanislaw was a thoroughly educated person and knew several foreign languages. He translated from Greek into Polish part of the work of the Patriarch of Constantinople

Gennadius Scholarius Gennadius II of Constantinople (Greek: Γεννάδιος; lay name: Γεώργιος Κουρτέσιος Σχολάριος, ''Georgios Kourtesios''; – ) was a Byzantine Greek philosopher and theologian, and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constan ...

, containing commentaries on the five articles of the Florentine Union, which was published in 1586. He was the author of a work on the main truths of the faith entitled ''(''), published in

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in 1591. Immediately after becoming the Elder of Samogitia, he wrote to his brother Mikołaj Krzysztof Radzwiłł: "While learning various languages, I forgot

Lithuanian Lithuanian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Lithuania, a country in the Baltic region in northern Europe ** Lithuanian language ** Lithuanians, a Baltic ethnic group, native to Lithuania and the immediate geographical region ** L ...

, and now I see, I have to go to school again, because that language, as I see, God willing, will be needed." This was because the Lithuanian language remained dominant in Samogitia, unlike in certain other areas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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* * * Margaret Odrowaz-Sypniewska, ''The Radziwill Dynasty: From Pagan Times to the 1960s - Part One'', https://www.angelfire.com/mi4/polcrt/radziwill.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Radziwill, Stanislaw Secular senators of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Ruthenian nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Polish Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Calvinism Stanislaw Pious 1559 births 1599 deaths Military personnel from Vilnius Grand Marshals of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania